Timely surgical fixation confers beneficial outcomes in patients' concomitant flail chest with mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury: a trauma quality improvement project analysis, a cohort study.
Liao Chien-AnLing-Wei KuoJen-Fu HuangChih-Yuan FuChen Szu-AnYu-San TeeChi-Hsun HsiehChien-Hung LiaoChi-Tung ChengTai-Horng YoungChih-Po HsuPublished in: International journal of surgery (London, England) (2023)
Timely rib fixation can improve the mortality rate of patients with flail chest with concomitant mild-to-moderate head injury.
Keyphrases
- quality improvement
- traumatic brain injury
- end stage renal disease
- minimally invasive
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- patient safety
- cardiovascular events
- prognostic factors
- type diabetes
- risk factors
- cardiovascular disease
- metabolic syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- patient reported outcomes
- optic nerve
- skeletal muscle